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1922 
OHIO UNIVERSITY 

ATHENS 



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A land-mark from the days when Ohio University 
Campus was an Indian hunting ground. 

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JUN 26 1922 



Copyright pictures are Copyright 1922, 
by E. H. Eves and may not be 
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jTo the Friends of "OLD OHIO" 

THIS little book tells something of what has 
gone into the making of "Old Ohio," the 
noble and high aspirations, the fine spirit of 
the teachers and the taught that have made 
her glorious. Today, abreast of the times, 
under new and vital leadership, the Univer- 
sity is on the threshold of an era of unprece- 
dented development. 

Partly because of the War and partly be- 
cause of the general progress in education, 
Ohio University, like the other universities 
and colleges, is today facing an unprecedent- 
ed opportunity. Just as readjustment is going on in industry and 
social relations everywhere, so the universities must readjust and 
re-inforce themselves in every activity. The administration of 
Ohio University is planning to meet the demands of the day by 
utilizing to the fullest extent all available resources and by de- 
veloping and adding to those resources. 

New buildings are rising on the campus, the faculty is being 
strengthened by the addition of noted men and women from far 
and near, and the curriculum is being enlarged in many depart- 
ments. Ohio University has started on a program which will in- 
crease many-fold its value to the State of Ohio. But in advancing 
to new work and larger usefulness the University is not forgetful 
of her past. It is from that firm foundation, so well laid by the 
men and women of other days, that the development and exten- 
sion of the present must proceed. 

So, in the remembrance of a mighty heritage, the alumni, the 
faculty and the students are banded together pledged one and all 
that the accomplishments of Ohio University's past shall be equal- 
led, and exceeded, by the attainments of a still more glorious 
future. 



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The Old 
University 

THE folks who went to 
school at Ohio Univer- 
sity have more to be proud of 
than a mere education. Edu- 
cation we received, and a 
good one ; but aside from the 
lessons we learned from 
books — which were quite the 
same as the lessons taught 
from books in other univer- 
sities — we have special reason 
for gratitude and pride. For 
each one of us who ever 
studied at Ohio University is 
a part of an old and honor- 
able institution which has 
played a unique and signifi- 
cant part in the progress of 
education. 

The college green at Ath- 
ens where we once worked 
and played and dreamed day- 
dreams of the future, is one of the most significant squares of sod in America, 
for there higher education under government patronage had its start. In a 
vague way we realize that it is significant. We think of it as associated with 
a past made notable by such figures as President McGuffey, who planted the 
long straight row of seventeen elms, and wrote the readers which made his 
name familiar in every pioneer home that sent its children to the district 
school ; and even farther back we picture Thomas Ewing, the first graduate, 
who came to the University a hundred years and more ago, his appetite for 
knowledge, as Professor Martzolff said, "whetted to a keen edge by the 
famous coon skin Library." Perhaps we think of the Reverend Jacob Lind- 
ley, the first president, who brought to the frontier the culture of old 
Princeton University. We recall these storied figures, dimly outlined in 
the remote past of our Alma Mater, without, perhaps, really picturing its 
true age and dignity. For the old University is rooted deep in the soil of 
America, and its beginning is associated with men and events both venerable 




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and picturesque — the slow 
formation of a strong republic 
and the upbuilding of a new 
commonwealth in the first 
West. 

George Washington signed 
the patent of the Ohio Com- 
pany and Thomas Jefferson 
affixed to it the Great Seal, in 
the city of Philadelphia, Oc- 
tober 27, 1787. This docu- 
ment set aside two townships 
in the center of the tract as the 
gift of the United States Gov- 
ernment for the founding of a 
University. And from that 
time the Ohio University was 
the subject of many confer- 
ences of old Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler, the founder of the 
Ohio Associates, and his board 
of directors. Meeting in Bos- 
ton at Brackett's Tavern or 
the Bunch of Grapes, they 
made plans for building a col- 
lege in far away Ohio, and in 
1795, a committee of the 
doughtiest from their number 

was directed "to be ready to go up the Great Hock-Hocking as soon as the 
season will permit, there determine the site of the new institution of learning." 

When Dr. Cutler visited Ohio in company with Rufus Putnam, the 
leader of the colony, he climbed "the high hill north-west of the Fort," and 
described it in his diary: "Fine prospect. Some excellent land; fine rock 
for building, and it is proposed that the University be on this hill." 

To this favored spot, a little later, a committee set out to lay off a town 
plot with a square for the college. "In a fleet of canoes propelled by the 
power of the setting pole against the current of the Great Hock-Hocking, 
accompanied by armed guards against the Indians, and carrying with them 
the pork and beans and hard-tack that made up their rough fare, the com- 
mittee of old veterans of three wars, proceeded to fix with compass and 
chain, the boundaries of the University lands." 

Samuel Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio, rode on horseback over the 
hills from Chillicothe to the first meeting of the board of trustees which was 




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Elmer Burritt Bryan, LL.D., L.H.D., eleventh President 
of Ohio University, was graduated from Indiana Univer- 
sity in 1893, and was a graduate student at Harvard and 
Clark Universities. He taught in public, elementary and 
high schools, became Professor of Educational Psychology 
at Indiana University, was Qeneial Superintendent of Edu- 
cation in the Philippine Islands in 1903, President of 
Franklin College 1905- 1909, President of Colgate Univer- 
sity IQOQ-IQ2I and President of Ohio University 1921 — . 



held in the home of Dr. Eliphaz Perkins in a clearing close to the Univers- 
ity site. The meeting lasted three days, and it was decided to wait for in- 
creases in the income from the rents on the University's two townships of 
land before constructing buildings. In 1805 the first building — twenty by 
thirty feet, of brick, two stories high — was built on the east side of the 
campus, and in 1808 Dr. Jacob Lindley opened Ohio University to the three 
students who arrived on the first registration day. 

To this clearing in the midst of the forest was transported the culture 
of the ages, and here from rough pioneer communities and isolated farms 
of the rich Ohio valleys came eager youth intent on getting an education. 
The charter and the course of instruction were modelled after those of 
Harvard and Yale, and the student regulations were similar to those of 
Princeton with which President Lindley was familiar. So the new university 
brought the best of education in America to the service of the frontier. 



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The GREAT UNIVERSITY 

THE modest beginnings of 
Ohio University in a 
single building in a remote 
corner of the far West is no in- 
dication of the influence it 
wielded in the new country, 
and, indeed, in the entire 
United States, for it was soon 
known as one of the first-rate 
institutions of America. Since 
institutions are judged great 
not because of acres of campus 
and dozens of buildings, but 
rather for the quality of their 
instruction, and the leader- 
ship of their alumni, Ohio 
University in its single build- 
ing deserved to be called great. 
From the outset its standing 
was of the highest, its instruc- 
tion the most thorough and its 
influence widespread. The first 
graduate, Thomas Ewing, set 
the standard of performance 
when he entered the United 
States Senate and later became 
a member of President Har- 



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rison's Cabinet. Others attained high 
position at home and abroad. The 
ability of the alumni spread broadcast 
the fame of Ohio University, and men 
cameto Athensover hundreds of miles 
of poor roads and blind trails from all 
parts of the new country, and in large 
numbers from Virginia, where no 
university had yet been established. 

Then, as now, it was the men Ohio 
University trained and gave to the 
service of society that made her 
great. Bishops and judges, legisla- 
tors, doctors, teachers, ministers, went 
out from the college at Athens to 
tackle the problems of a new country, 
and to strengthen and enrich the life 
of the pioneer commonwealth. 

It would be interesting to see the 
records of all the men and women 
who have attended Ohio University 
and to discover what has been her 



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service to society. Unhappily, there 
is no complete account to show the 
service of her sons and daughters. 
Even the occupations they followed 
are for the most part unknown, for the 
accurate accounting of graduates and 
former students after they leave col- 
lege is a recent development. Frag- 
mentary as the records are, they in- 
dicate in a measure what has been the 
contribution of the old University. 

Among the thousands of men and 
women who have studied at Ohio 
University are many outstanding 
figures of State and national promi- 
nence. 

The University has sent out two 
Governors of the State of Ohio and 
one Governor of Indiana. 

Members of the constitutional 
conventions of the states of Indiana, 
Ohio, Louisiana and Virginia were 
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Loyal ~\ jfe ^^^yjiffiffi %»%m sity man, as were also two 

Secretaries of the Treasury. 

The President of the Con- 
federate States of America 
had been a student at Ohio 
University before the time of 
Secession. 

The University has furnish- 
ed many diplomatic and con- 
sular officers, among them a 
Minister to Turkey. 

The University has sent out 
1 18 clergymen who have filled 
pastorates all over the United 
States, and have been mission- 
aries to many foreign lands. 
Bishop Earl Cranston and 
Bishop E. R. Ames have been 
outstanding figures in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Rev. William Gist was recent- 
ly made National Chaplain of 
the Grand Army of the Re- 
public. 

Ohio University laymen 
have been prominent in the 
management of denominational interests also. Among the officers of im- 
portant church organizations have been the General Finance Secretary of 
the Northwest Conference of Universalists, Trustee of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in the United States, Director of the American Unitar- 
ian Association, President of the Free Will Baptist Association, President 
of the Clark Estate and Fund, the national home missionary agency of the 
Disciples of Christ, Secretary of the Board of Home Missions of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Trustee of Kenyon College of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and Missionary Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Missionaries from among the alumni are now working in China, 
Siam, South America, India and Africa. 

Many Ohio University graduates have engaged in social work. Among 
them are the Superintendent of the Children's Home Society of Los Angeles, 
California; a member of the Psycho- Clinical Bureau of Juvenile Research 
in New York; the Clinical Psychiatrist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wash- 




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ington, D. C. ; a director of 
Girls' Scout Work, Secretary 
of the Indiana State Young 
Men's Christian Association. 

The Ohio University has 
been one of the greatest fac- 
tors in the educational life of 
the Middle West, for it has 
trained more teachers than any 
school in the state, and its 
school-men and women fill im- 
portant positions in every part 
of Ohio and the adjoining 
states. Information in the Al- 
umni office shows that a large 
number of the teachers trained 
at the University have at- 
tained executive positions as 
supervisors, principals or 
superintendents. 

One hundred and three 
Ohio University alumni have 
become teachers in colleges or 
universities, instructing in 
such institutions as Harvard, 
Wisconsin, Cornell, Cincin- 
nati, Washington and Jeffer- 
son, Pittsburg, Beloit, Syra- 
cuse, Vanderbilt,, Mississippi, Armour Institute of Technology, College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia and Union Theological Seminary. 

The University has produced thirteen college presidents, including 
presidents of the University of Missouri, Ohio State University, Cincinnati, 
Wesleyan, Denver University and Lafayette College. 

One Ohio University man was appointed Government Visitor to the 
United States Military Academy at West Point; another was Visitor to the 
Harvard Divinity School. The editor of the Journal of Pedagogy is an 
Ohio University man, as is also the editor of the New York Times. 

Forty graduates of Ohio University are physicians and the University 
has had the honor of providing one president of the Ohio State Medical 
Association. 

To the law, the University has given hundreds of attorneys, many of 
whom have risen to high positions on the State and Federal bench. A 
recent Attorney General of Ohio is an alumnus of Ohio University. 




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The LOYAL UNIVERSITY 

SO the men and women of 
the old University have 
made it great. Through the 
generations they have proudly 
watched it grow from a hand- 
ful of students in a tiny build- 
ing to a modern and well 
equipped institution, caring 
each year for thousands. Its 
standards have remained high, 
its faculty is distinguished for 
scholarship and standing in 
the academic world; its al- 
umni are known as leaders 
wherever they may be. 

And as the University has 
ever remained loyal to the 
principles of its founders who 
chartered it in the belief that 
"Religion, morality and knowl- 
edge are necessary to good 
government and the happiness 
of mankind," so the alumni 
have remained loyal to the 




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Ohio University ideal, carry- 
ing to their work in every state 
of the Union something of the 
high purpose and the conse- 
cration of its noble faculty, 
and the spirit and enthusiasm 
of its student body. 

In this year of 1922, at a 
time of new and vital leader- 
ship in the University, the al- 
umni have determined to raise 
on the campus a monument 
that shall be significant of 
their pride and their loyalty. 
Alumni Memorial Auditor- 
ium is to be the gift of the 
loyal sons and daughters of 
Old Ohio. It will memorial- 
ize those of the alumni who 
served well in their country's 
wars and those who made 
notable contributions in times 
of peace. It will face the 
campus as a perpetual remind- 
er that those who had good 




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things at the hand of Alma Mater did not forget; that because they are 
solicitous of the welfare of the students who today work and play and 
dream day-dreams on the old campus at Athens, they have raised for them 
a splendid building where they will find new inspiration in drama, music, 
art, philosophy and the discourse of wise and learned men and women who 
will lead them to new places of vision and new heights of attainment. 

Alumni Memorial Auditorium is to be the gift of all the alumni — 
which means all the graduates and former students — as a token that the men 
and women of the old and great University are loyal to their Alma Mater 
and their State. 



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